On trying to install, script included tries to remove several programs I use, like SimpleScreenRecorder and Blender. From what I gather, the guilty party is one of the dependencies of one of the programs installed in the process.

Is this normal, or do I need to stop using those programs in order to test Mycroft?

My system is up to date, clean, and running as I want it. But, as you see, it will uninstall Blender, Simple Screen Recorder, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Wine, and a couple of sound libraries Open Shot uses. All those are vital for me, so I cannot install Mycroft without first being sure I’ll be able to reinstall all those programs after.

I’ve gone through some of the dependencies to see which one is messing things up, but there are 51 new packages it plans to install, so checking to find the one is going to take me a long time.

Something in the package list conflicts, and it’s being told to install the new stuff, hence the need to remove things (if you were to continue). If you are tied to those packages, then you’d be better off installing in a VM or a separate system.

That’s super helpful information, thanks @Manticore010.mycroft-core should NOT cause the removal of packages like wine and blender (and I’m a huge OpenShot user too, totally understand why you need to keep these packages).

I also wonder whether it’s worth doing a sudo apt-get update on your system before trying to run /.dev_setup.sh just to make sure you’re installing from a known good state, just in case there’s an existing dpkg error?

I’m going to flag @forslund here to see if we’ve seen anything like this in the past .

The best advise I can give is that you do a “binary search” for the package, try installing half of the packages and see if the problem is there. If it is, try half of those packages otherwise try the other half and continue in that fashion.

just to make sure. It’s taken me a while, but my Kubuntu is exactly as I want it, even Discover works well.

I’m interested in voice control due to limited eyesight. That makes it easier for me to control the computers, and of course I don’t plan to stop using Linux after all these years.

However, for now, I think I’m refraining from using Mycroft for a while. I’m afraid of breaking the perfect balance I have now that allows me to record video, edit it, and post-edit it using Adobe tools (on Wine).